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    • RE: Horrifying fact about transGENDER people

      @lololulu19 @blablarg18

      This post is honestly full of misunderstandings and harmful assumptions, so is needed to respond in good faith and clear a few things up.

      First off, the math you're using doesn’t hold up. Saying that trans people are “four times more likely” to experience mental health issues doesn’t mean 100 percent of them have a disorder. That’s not how statistics work. If 25 percent of the general population has a diagnosable mental health condition, then four times that is 100 percent only if every single trans person is affected, which isn't what any credible data says. Risk factors don’t equal universal outcomes.

      Now, it’s true that trans people face higher rates of mental health challenges, but the cause isn't being trans. It’s how the world treats them. There’s tons of research showing that rejection, family rejection, bullying, harassement, discrimination, and being denied healthcare are what lead to worse mental health outcomes. In fact, when transgender people are accepted, supported, and able to access care, their mental health outcomes improve significantly. Being transgender it’s not that causes distress, it’s being mistreated for it that is the cause.

      You also bring up gender dysphoria as if it’s proof of mental illness. That’s not accurate. Gender dysphoria is a medical condition, like pregnancy or chronic pain. It’s not a “mental illness” in the sense people often use that term and even in the Internationcal coding of Deiseases it was moved from "mental issues" to "Conditions relative to sexual health". The condition doesn’t mean someone is delusional, it means they’re experiencing real distress because their body and identity don’t line up and usually the disphoria stops right after trans people are ok with their transition and passability level. And here’s the key part: the only treatment that has consistently worked to "cure" gender dysphria is gender-affirming care (including social and sometimes medical transition). Not therapy to “talk them out of it.” Not meds to suppress identity. And definitely not what used to be tried in the past: electroshock, institutionalization, torture or worse. Those methods didn’t help. They traumatized people. Sometimes they killed them.

      So if we’re serious about helping people with gender dysphoria, we should listen to what works. Supporting them in their transition works. Trying to “fix” them doesn’t.

      Also, lumping trans people together with “transvestites” or saying gay people aren’t “mentally ill”, while trans people are (they both were labeled this way in a recent past), just reinforces outdated and frankly harmful stereotypes.
      First: Transgender people have a gender identity different from the sex assigned at birth, just this. Gay/lesbian/bi describes sexual orientation, not gender (and trans people can also be gay or from any orientation) and cross-dressing or transvestism is not inherently linked to being trans or gay. It can be part of a kink, art or lifestyle, but not always. Being trans isn’t a fetish, it isn’t a phase, and it isn’t something people just made up, is something recorded throughout all human history since ancient times. And it’s recognized by every major medical organization in the world, including the American Medical Association, the APA, and the WHO, even in countries who hate queer people.

      Also, equating race identity with gender identity (“I identify as Black”) is a false comparison. Race and gender are experienced and constructed very differently in society, and this argument ignores the robust science and lived experience behind trans identities.

      Finally, telling a story about a friend who had a bad experience dating a trans person doesn’t prove anything, even your previous story proves it. People have rough relationships all the time, straight, cis, gay and trans people can be jerks too, regardless of gender, people can develop mental ilness at any point of life due to trauma, age or a lot of factors. That’s not a trans issue, that’s a human issue. That doesn’t make an entire group “mentally ill.”

      If you genuinely care about mental health, then we should be trying to make the world safer and more accepting for everyone, you should be advocating for better support and treatments even for mentally ill people, not trying to paint trans people like insane people, you wouldn't be doing it to any person with an actual mental illness or medical condition like you do to trans people, so don't buy the ideology of jerk people that are trying to erase trans people out of existence and civil rights. Trans people deserve respect, support, and the right to live their lives without being labeled “insane” just for existing.

      They’re not the problem. The stigma is. And the stigma already labeled us, gays, as insane people too in the recent past, denied us health care and put us in prisons and concentration camps, in fact all this anti-trans rethoric is just a re-edition of old tactics used to paint gays and all queer people as ill, predators, insane, nasty, dangerous and a lot of things. They just changed some arguments, but the script is the same.

      (And it's the same script used against jews in the past if you look closer, but this is something to talk another time).

      Let’s try to be better than this.

      posted in Sex & Relationships
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Are yall gay men who support trump

      @stdspd11

      Actually, I’ve noticed two or three users here who are clearly right-wing gays. They mostly interact with each other, and they tend to be way more active than the left-wing ones. Probably because most left-wing queer folks are already exhausted from arguing elsewhere and just don’t have the energy to keep debating on a porn site. And because here they are not punished for saying shit like they will be in any social network with moderation bots and investors to keep things neutral and profitable.

      Globally, most queer people lean left politically. That’s because, outside of authoritarian regimes, left-wing parties and countries tend to be more supportive of LGBT rights. Also, most of the world strongly dislikes Trump, just as we’ve disliked all former US presidents, because, geopolitically, the U.S. acts like a global bully. But Trump stands out as especially dangerous. And no, people don’t think that because “liberal media told them.” It’s because we have eyes, and we have healthier societies to compare.

      One thing the site admin pointed out, and he is absolutely right: even the biggest “left-wing” party in the U.S. is still deeply racist, sexist, and queerphobic by global standards. That’s because American politics is so skewed to the right that their so-called "left" would be considered just right-wing anywhere else.

      Sure, sometimes someone with genuine good intentions pops up among the Democrats, but those people rarely make it to the top. The system simply doesn’t allow it. Politicians who care “too much” about people threaten the system itself. The last truly leftist presidential candidate was Bernie Sanders, and at this point, it’s doubtful he’ll live long enough to run again.

      So people like those three right-wing users never even hear about the genuinely good folks in politics. And when they look at figures who are supposed to be the “good guys”, like Biden, they feel disappointed. Then they end up siding with people who at least are being honest about their bad intentions. “We’re going to destroy your life,” they say, and somehow, that sounds more trustworthy. At least they don’t feel betrayed when the leopards eat their faces after they voted fot the "leopards eating faces" party.

      I usually just ignore those users unless they start slipping into conspiracy territory or post outright misinformation, especially when it targets the very existence of trans people. Not because I expect to change their minds, but because if no one pushes back, people who are still figuring things out might start believing the propaganda. And that’s how bigotry spreads: when it's the only voice in the room.

      The thing with Trump supporters is that they already live inside their own echo chamber. That alone wouldn’t be so bad if Americans as a whole weren’t already trapped in a much larger echo chamber that keeps them disconnected from the rest of the world. The MAGA version is just a way more radical, more distorted version of that bubble, and it’s not worth the emotional labor to try to pop it.

      I’m a foreigner, and honestly, we’re seeing the same thing happen outside the US now. Trumpism is being exported, sometimes word-for-word, with no cultural context or adaptation to countries where some of the rethoric doesn't even makes sense. His supporters are actively building Trump-style movements in other countries, creating local copycat politicians and parties and with no exception is always catastrophic to the country.

      This isn’t the place for a deep political discussion, you know why. A better way to push back is simply to post left-wing news and memes, just like they do with their propaganda. Or just do nothing. Let the leopards eat their faces like they will already do. The leopards don't spare someone just because they support them. Why waste your energy arguing?

      posted in Politics & Debate
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Horrifying fact about transGENDER people

      @raphjd You are right, criticism isn't "phobia".
      But one of the people here everyday create a new topic calling trans "mutilated, confused, mentally-ill or groomers", and spreading fake news and misinformation about them..
      The guy also calls trans and autistic people mentally-ill, and this is ableist per se.

      Religious people will call their persecution towards gay people "criticism" too, but it doesn't make it less persecutory.

      posted in Sex & Relationships
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Are yall gay men who support trump

      @blablarg18 "Free speech, peace, and race-neutrality"? That’s cute.

      What it means to you?

      As I said, I'm a foreigner. I don't live in US and, as the rest of the world, I know the rest of the world better than the average american.

      Most of the countries have stronger laws to keep the free speech and the respect, so people can't openly lie, spread hate speech or misinformation, nor offend people like is allowed in America. Protests are free speech? Different clothes are expression freedom? Apparently not in US.

      Peace and US in the same sentence sound like a joke to the rest of the world, because US is the biggest war machine in the planet and funded coups and wars all over the world. So remembering it and how americans worships guns, and talk about “civil war” every election cycle and call it "peace" is just ironic.

      Race-neutrality is a new term to me, is something like colorblind casting, that puts people of any race in certain roles according to merit, or is a cuter way to pretend racism is not a thing?

      Calling that out isn’t a “mask off” moment. It’s just not letting people hide behind nice-sounding buzzwords that hide harmful actions.

      As I said, is an echo chamber. It doesn't worth what I say, you believe I think in a certain way and you automatically see me as an enemy. You don't want to have a conversation, you want to give a speech, even if it's to an empty room.

      posted in Politics & Debate
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Gay and Muslim

      @raphjd:

      This discussion is about "gay and muslim" so that is why it is the focus.

      I still think the way the discussion developed it's a bad way.
      Instead of stimulates people to change the strutures of their religion I have only seen finger pointed and posts that can be resumed to "muslins are evil and vile, gay muslins either" in a website with a big arabic forum right there, indicating that are way more gay muslins then we can see.

      I undestand that you dislikes religious stuff, but I don't think this way it's a good way to talk about these subjects.

      (And i feel some prejudice in your speech, I say it as a outside viewer, that is non-european, non-british, non-muslin, non-religious at all, a way different context with no terrorist attacks and no middle east immigrants).

      I don't know if my post will contribute here, but I felt someone should post it.

      posted in Religion & Philosophy
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Horrifying fact about transGENDER people

      @raphjd You’re actually pretty sure I’m American, right?
      Because most of these names you keep throwing at me, I honestly wouldn’t know if you made them up because this is so american-centered that you don't even know, and to me this is not a great strategy because anyone can pick bad cases of any group to say the group is bad, they do it with gays and with MAGA all the time, but what really show if the accusation is right is the real ideology and actions of the group/movement as a whole. (and that's not right at all when you see the trans or gay movements).

      You just have this pre-built idea of who I am, what I think, and what side I’m on and is fighting with this pre-built idea, not with me and what I am actually saying. I’m not American, I don't live in US. I’m just someone observing things globally, and trying to be honest about the patterns I see, specially when I see the pattern of attacking rights of LGBTs.

      And I want to say this: Everything you’ve said about trans people? That exact same logic, almost literally word for word, has been used against us for decades by religious conservatives.

      They’ve always said “I don’t hate all gays, just the ones who are too flamboyant, or the ones who push an agenda, or the ones who confuse kids, or the ones who blablabla.”
      They would pick out some gay men who did something wrong, amplify the hell out of it, and say: “See? This is why we can’t trust any of them.”
      They’d say things like “Real gay people just live quietly, it’s the queer ones we have a problem with.”

      Sound familiar?

      Now you’re doing the exact same thing with trans people. Splitting them into “real” and “queer attention-seekers.” Highlighting some edge-case behavior or bad actor and acting like that somehow makes the whole group suspicious. That’s not fairness. That’s recycled bigotry, just pointed in a new direction.

      And look, people manipulating systems or doing shitty things exists in every group. Straight people, gay people, cis people, trans people, we’ve all seen examples. But if we let those few define the whole, we end up justifying exclusion, dehumanization, and discrimination for everyone.

      That’s not justice. That’s fear politics.

      If someone abuses a legal loophole, we fix the loophole. We don’t turn that into a reason to treat an entire marginalized community as suspect or dangerous. We both know how that story ends, we’ve lived it in our own skin or as a group.

      You say you respect “real” trans people. But in everything you write, you’re building a picture of them that’s conditional and demeaning. And the people writing anti-trans laws? They don’t care about your categories. They don’t make exceptions for the “good ones.” They just ban healthcare, restrict rights, ban LGBT suicide helplines, and unleash violence on the entire group. And your rhetoric helps them do it, even if that’s not what you meant.

      We, as gay men, should know better. We should be standing up against this logic, not repeating it.

      posted in Sex & Relationships
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: ATTENTION: RAPHJD!!! ATTENTION: RAPHJD!!!

      @AnythingOld:

      @PedrocaWest:

      @AnythingOld:

      Something tells me you'll get a kick out of this.

      I'm from Brazil, I don't know her '-'

      That's why you shouldn't claim Trump to be a "Xenophobic piece of shit," when you don't understand how complicated America actually is.

      We have a version of Trump here as president.
      He is a xenophobic piece of shit too.

      posted in Jokes & Funny Stuff
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Are yall gay men who support trump

      @blablarg18 Actually we see NATO as just an extention of the US military and that Ukraine only started that useless war because of a coup funded by US itself.
      Also most of the world hate Russia too, we don't think Putin and Trump are so different, if there is any difference is that Putin is just smarter.

      posted in Politics & Debate
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Ok, I"ll Stop Saying It!!

      He is a xenophobic piece of s***

      posted in Jokes & Funny Stuff
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Are yall gay men who support trump

      @blablarg18 Can you confirm Layla Jane is dead?
      I can't find any information about her passing.
      Also, as I said in other topic: The rest of the world only allow trans teens to have hormone replacement and any surgical body modification after 16 and 18, specifically.

      The whole case is wrong, the doctor should and could not perform mastectomy at someone that is 13yo and she is totally right for sueing them.

      This is why puberty blockers exist, they give time for someone that is confused to mature enough to be really sure if they are trans or not.

      And in the video the guy clearly don't know what the hell the recording guy is talking about, he just thinks is a random lgbtphobe saying shit. And is treating him accordingly.

      posted in Politics & Debate
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • [Banca do Pedroca] Pessoal, venham cá, tenho um convite para vocês

      Oi gente, vi que muitos de vocês estão com problemas para aumentar o Ratio, então tenho um convite a fazer.
      Criei este tópico para que possamos papear, criar jogos, postar imagens aleatórias de boys magya e atividades afins, todo mundo junto.

      O objetivo inicial é movimentar este fórum - que está hiper parado - e tentar fazer com que criemos amizades aqui, mas o principal é que ganhemos seedbonus a partir de postagens úteis, sem ter de floodar outros tópicos postando mensagens aleatórias apenas para ganhar um seedpoint por vez.

      "Ah, mas aqui não seria a mesma coisa?"

      Sim e não, sim pq vc também ganhará seus bônus um a um, mas não é a mesma coisa pq vou postar alguns objetivos que devem ser cumpridos diariamente, se possível interagindo com outros membros, o que tornará o processo de conquistar os tão desejados seedbonus muito mais interessante e até mesmo mais rápido e divertido.

      Convido a todos que quiserem participar, pois assim um poderá apoiar o outro quando o jogo estiver maior.

      Inicialmente serão 24 objetivos, mas podemos por mais de acordo com possíveis sugetões:
      1- Postar uma palavra estranha, daquelas que a gente nunca escuta ou que são engraçadas de ouvir.
      2- Postar uma piada aleatória que já não tenha sido postada aqui
      3- Postar uma música que você goste e queira indicar
      4- Postar um canal do Youtube que seja ligado a Causa LGBT
      5- Postar uma foto de um homem que te atraia, seja vestido ou não.
      6- Postar uma foto de uma mulher que você considera muito bonita, seja vestida ou não.
      7- Postar uma indicação de filme
      8- Postar o poster desse filme
      9- Fazer uma pergunta a última pessoa que postou antes de você
      10- Caso tenha upado algum torrent divulgar o endereço aqui para que outros membros possam baixar
      11- Postar uma foto aleatória de pinto
      12- Postar uma foto aleatória de bunda
      13- Postar a foto de um homem que te atraia e não seja branco/caucasiano
      14- Postar um vídeo de humor
      15- Postar um meme que te fez rir
      16- Postar uma notícia interessante à causa LGBT+
      17- Postar o nome e endereço de um site/blog pornô que não seja muito conhecido
      18- Falar uma curiosidade sobre você
      19- Postar um gif aleatório que não seja do Gaytorrent.ru
      20- Dar dicas sobre tecnologia ou postar notícias relacionadas ao assunto
      21- Dar dicas sobre literatura ou postar notícias relacionadas ao assunto
      22- Dar dicas sobre culinária ou postar notícias relacionadas ao assunto
      23- Postar uma imagem (ou o link de uma) que você considera muito bonita, interessante ou chocante
      24- Comentar (com 3 palavras ou mais) cada uma das postagens feitas pelos outros membros.

      Lembrando que se você comentar algo útil ou relevante você poderá começar uma conversa, o que te fará ganhar ainda mais pontos.

      Não precisa esperar ninguém comentar antes de você, é só sair postando, a regra do tópico é essa.
      Peço ao moderador, se é que ele ainda entra no site, que não encrenque com ninguém que esteja postando, que encare isso como um tópico de jogos (algo que é permitido no fórum em inglês).

      Enfim, só pra deixar claro, não precisa fazer todos (se fizer melhor), pode fazer um mais de uma vez, mas não poste mais que 5 vezes seguidas apenas um dos objetivos, tente ser criativo.

      E que comece o jogo!

      posted in Português (Portuguese)
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
    • RE: Aumentar meu Ratio

      Usando os bonus.
      Upando vídeos novos.
      Semeando os q já baixou.
      Baixando os freeleech e deixando ser upado (não aumenta sua taxa de download, só a de upload).
      Postando aqui.
      Adicionando fotos nos torrents alheios.
      Escolhendo 5 categorias para torrents q vc já baixou e assistiu.
      Denunciando torrents repetidos.
      Participando e criando tópicos no forum…

      Tem um mundo de jeitos de aumentar seu Ratio, eu estava bloqueado até uns dias atrás, mas tô postando, baixando e upando de boinha hoje.

      posted in Português (Portuguese)
      PedrocaWest
      PedrocaWest
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